Great looking website. I love the illustrations here, that's what sells this for me. There's a lot of great details here too, my favorites are the work icons beside each portfolio piece, those are really simple and clever. That Twitter bird icon is pretty sweet too.
fullcreative.com
I like the colors in this site design. It's largely dark grey and white with the red and blue colors worked in for some great contrast. The large images on the home page are nicely used as well. I both like and dislike the large background image, they look good, but...
xxico.com
I like the illustrations and swipe icons that have been done for this website. The background and texture, suggesting the grime of a touchscreen is also a nice touch. I think that's museo used and it's interesting that I think this is the first time i've seen that...
duplos.org
Really neat single page website with some compelling little animations worked in. The design is really clever and the animations add some attention to the design where it's needed. I love the dark rich colors and texture too.
PatrickAlgrim.me
I like the concept of this site, it's a good way to get a real brief overview of what Patrick is all about. It's straightforward and to the point. "I do this, I've done this, etc.." It's hits the right points but I'm not sure about the tone. When you have good work,...
nextroom.at
Really neat looking design, using the vertical gridlines in the design. The section on the far right that rolls to that lower position as the browser window is scaled smaller is a bit odd though, not sure why the necessity to do that but not the other grid columns....
contrast.ie
Fairly interesting design here. I like the open and organic feel to the design, the type is pretty nice, though I think it it were really hand lettered that would be incredible (though maybe illegible, they may have tried that...) I like that it's largely made up of...
ONA10
Really cool teaser page for the next ONA conference. It's one long single pate and it really works. After all it's a teaser style page but packed with info. I like the banded dark(ish) to light bands for the sections and typography is pretty good. It gets a little...
appear.dk
Really interesting, non-standard style of navigation for this website. It reminds me a lot of the way most "agency" style flash based websites present themselves. This one is just done using javascript. I like it, I think it has impact since it's kept very simple. The...
The Sign Scene
Submitted by Tyler Herman, Designer & Developer. A collection of user submitted street, billboard, and display signs. Pretty cool gallery concept and pretty good design too. It's really a rather simple design, just a standard gallery blog but I like the right side bar...
MyEDU
Submitted by Jesse Guerrero, @userinterface. Designer & Developer. Well, this is one of the most complicated sites of my career. The overall brand is conservative so there wasn't much room for going over board. There are some custom illustrations and nice flares that...
thelomographer.com Email
This Lomography International email newsletter design is pretty cool with that giant image using those "Diana" Camera from the 60's pictures. As you scroll down you see the cutout shapes that link you directly to the products themselves, then showing off the pics it...
bell.ca
Website for Bell Canada. It's really clean and minimal and uses javascript in really helpful ways to keep the visual design simple looking. The image slideshow for the various marketing initiatives is really standard but a really central part to this design. Along...
Silly Poems for Kids
Here's a really fun looking website for a book of poems for kids. We did a more a detailed screen cast review of this but overall we liked this site. The colors are rich and we loved the little animations. The animations aren't over the top and really help to sell the...
Andrew Canham
Submitted by Andrew Canham, @candroo. Designer & Developer. Really a rather simple website, there's really not much to it, but it's a great example of brevity in my opinion. Showing just a handful of design project samples and the big contact form. Man, that submit...
southwest.com
In our screen cast review of this site Jay and I talked about how the top half of this website is pretty awesome. The navigation and the mega drop down designs are quite nicely done. The overall look of the site is clean and has a decent welcoming feel to it. However...
vaultpress.com
I really like the soft feel to the vaultpress.com website. It's the colors and textures that really sell it. The icons and copy are funny and that big red ribbon shape just jumps out at you. The blog page is a nice shift in design, it's not too far of course from the...
visualrecipes.com
There is a lot of great stuff happening in this design. The navigation is clear and concise, that's a product of good IA in my opinion. The mega-dropdown element is really nice too, because it cuts through the clutter of what could be a big navigation menu to deal...
cotweet.com V2(ish)
Jay and I disagreed at first in our screen cast review of the new cotweet site. I thought it was a bit too plain at first but he convinced me that it is fact a really great business oriented design. We loved the sign up button and how the main tagline and microcopy...
Armitage Email
I like the rounded corner boxes with the bottom right being squared off, it's a nice play off their logo. The dark background is working fairly well on this design too. I like the dark brown and that blue color together. I do wonder if that gave them trouble in some...
trioutnc.com
Really well designed twitter location app. I love the colors and the way the home page really draws you into the Triangle area of North Carolina. I know that's the point of the app, but it just does it's job so well. The pictures and showing the popular/top spots and...
NordicRuby.org
Giovanni and I both like this design a good bit, we discuss it in detail in our screen cast review. We liked the navigation design a lot, it's nice and clean and easy to read and the interactions on them, while not unique, are well done. The site is what it is, it's a...
bbc.co.uk
The new(ish) BBC website rollout is really interesting. I do like it, I like the ability to customize what I want on the page. The fold up panels are very well done. The entire design is modular and has some great detail all over it. There's a ton of information to be...
Poolga.com
I love this blog layout. It has wonderful content and it's just so simple and straight forward you can't help but like it. I like how it goes from 4 large images to smaller sized ones based on when they were added. It feels a lot like ffffound.com but with a little...
colorcubic.com
I love the feeling of this design, the blocky nature and the dark background colors work really well together to make up this experience. The fixed header and other interaction details are also nicely done and subtle.
The History Channel
We really like the new design of history.com, Jay and I did a screen cast review of it. The image slider on the home page is nicely done, has plenty of eye candy to get you into the story that's featured. The "this day in history" block is a nice touch too. We...
speakhuman.com
This site is really striking in it's simplicity. The type treatment and hierarchy is perfect and the layout has a great balance. It's very fine and sharp in it's details and feels very 'booky' in that sense that you really want to dive in and flip through pages. I...
iambrom.com
I love this website. It's simple & clean and clever looking. The photos are personable and gives a little insight into who is brom, it should do that since the domain is iambrom.com. I think the thing I like most about it (I know I like too many "simple & clean"...
visitmix.com
I like the stark black and white design mixed in with the splashes of color. The typography is nicely done too. It's really pretty clear what this site is all about on a quick glance that's not necessarily easy to pull off with something new(ish) like this. Really...
Twitter.com V3
Late last week Twitter re-launched with what I think is a solid version 3 of their main home page. There's a pretty good post on their blog about it. I for one like this update, I liked the last one too for the most part. I did like the emphasis on trending topics on...
